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The field is smaller than a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Yet it contains some 5,000+ galaxies. Galaxies typically contain 50-200 billion stars (each).

The human mind simply doesn't the capacity to fully imagine the total scope of what we behold in the night sky.

I mean, just try picturing your entire field of vision in a spherical, 360 degree aspect, divided into segments as small as a grain of sand held at arm's length. Then, imagine that there are at least 5,000 galaxies in every one of those segments - each containing 50 to 200 BILLION stars.

I don't think I can do it. In fact, I know that I can't.

I'm telling you, people who think the only life in the cosmos is on this planet, just aren't thinking with the staggering numbers involved with the question.

A grain of sand held at arm’s length is roughly 1/12th the apparent diameter of the full moon. The Hubble eXtreme field, I believe, is even tinier than that. Amazing achievement. Then again, astronomers didn’t do that, Obama did!

just try picturing your entire field of vision in a spherical, 360 degree aspect, divided into segments as small as a grain of sand held at arm's length. Then, imagine that there are at least 5,000 galaxies in every one of those segments - each containing 50 to 200 BILLION stars.

And the miniscule segments wouldn't be 'slices'. They would be more like little squares of which a tiny grain of sand (held at arm's length) would fill.

Once I was deep in prayer, And I suddenly had a desire to know what it was like to be God and to know everything that was going on in the universe.

And for a moment, it felt like I did. Granted it seems an impossible number of individual things to know, but it was also just one thing to know. It was like a juggler juggling 1,000,000 balls, it wasn’t a matter of keeping track of the destiny of each individual ball, each ball was in motion set by the juggler, their path in life was by the will and power of the juggler who sent them. All the juggler had to keep in mind was setting into motion the balls coming to his hand, the paths of the ball’s he sent in motion, were set.

Or, you could say the will of God is like a stream of water so clear you can’t even see the water... you only way you can tell that the water’s there, is by the bubbles in it...and the bubbles are our reality, as we know it. But the reality we know, is actually nothing but empty air, carried along...the illusion of change, motion, time, energy we try to explain with physical laws, is nothing but a list of incidents relating to the actual motive force of Gods will.

Or, so it seemed that the time. It was only for a moment.

The human mind simply doesn't the capacity to fully imagine the total scope of what we behold in the night sky.

Yet we're all part of it. We're on this 8,000 mile wide ball-shaped rock zipping around our star at approximately 66,000 miles per hour (over 18 miles per second). Our speed around the galaxy is much faster than that. Include our galaxy's motion within the Local Group, etc, etc... There may not be an end to it.